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Classes are moving online, but teaching methods still need to catch up, says education expert – CBC.ca

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Tony Bates says one of the things that will come out of the shift to online learning during the pandemic is a rethinking of that first-year, large lecture class experience.

The pandemic may have forced classes in grade schools and post-secondary institutions online, but we need a bigger shift in teaching methods to create the best learning environment for students, says an expert in online education.

"We have good models from past experience how to teach well fully online, but we don't have those models about what's best done face-to-face and what's best online," said Tony Bates, who is a research associate at Contact North and senior advisor at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University.

Bates, who has authored a dozen books on the importance of technology in higher education, explained that educational institutions will have to offer a very clear value proposition for in-person classes, now that the majority of students have had some experience with online learning.

"I think the big question is going to be, 'Why get on the bus and come to campus, what are you offering that's so special that can't be done online?'" he explained.

Bates spoke with Spark host Nora Young about what he thinks the higher education experience will look like when students return to class in September, and how online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic might change how we think of education.

Here is part of their conversation.

What do you think the higher education experience is going to look like for students in Canada this fall?

I suspect it's going to be a lot better in September than it was in the spring for most students.

What's happening now is most institutions are working like mad to get that expertise out to their instructors, to get them better prepared for online instruction. The problem is, most faculty have had no training in online learning. One thing we know is that moving face-to-face teaching online isn't the best way to go. There's all kinds of problems for students, such as cognitive overload, giving the students too much information too quickly. You really have to start redesigning differently, and particularly to enable students to be more active in their learning.

Some have made the argument that what happened at all levels of education during this pandemic was not online learning but emergency remote teaching. So what has to happen in the fall to make the transition to effective online teaching?

I think the real answer is redesign of courses. I think that will come from experience, from instructors learning what doesn't work so well online and what does work online.

I think one of the things that will come out of this in the long run will be a rethinking of that first-year, large lecture class experience. It's going to be very hard to shift that model it's an 800-year-old model. But I think faculty will find that they can use video much better than using it for talking heads, for instance. They can use it to demonstrate things, they can get students to make videos to show how they're applying their learning in real-world situations.

Do you have a sense of what the students want, though? Do they want that blended learning? What I remember from post-secondary is that the social, interpersonal stuff was a hugely important part of not just my social life, but my intellectual development.

I don't see why, in the long run, we shouldn't be able to offer everything, so students can study in any way they wanted. The important thing is the learning outcome should be the same, the exam should be the same, but the students can get there through different routes, different ways of learning.

The demographics are on the side of online learning. We're seeing a flattening at the moment and I think it'll be a decline among the numbers of students coming out of high school, purely for demographic reasons. And we're going to see increased pressure for lifelong learning, because of people changing their jobs frequently. So I think the universities are going to have to restructure somewhat to accommodate these changes in demographics.

Going back sevenor eight years, there was a lot of excitement about MOOCs massive open online courses but the promise of moving everything online kind of fizzled. What did we learn from the MOOC experience in this new situation?

I think the real value of MOOCs is in the informal learning space.

What I think will happen is that we'll have much more thoughtfulness about how we combine online and face-to-face learning for credit-based teaching, so that we get the best of both worlds. And that's not gonna be done through MOOCs, because they don't provide support that learners need to succeed in a full degree program over the three or four years. The numbers are too great to give that individual, personal support.

We're talking about the new "new normal," whether COVID has been an opportunity to fundamentally change some things we take for granted. Could these changes redefine what higher education is?

Yes and no. No, because there is a huge inertia in the system, there's all these structural barriers to radical change. Secondly, there are a lot of good things about, particularly, the university, that I wouldn't like to see change the freedom of inquiry for faculty, the ability of the instructor to be in charge of their own teaching, and so on.

What I do think is needed is much more faculty development, much more training in teaching, and far less emphasis on content presentation. The content is important you gotta know stuff in order to develop a skill but I think we need some changes in the balance between content delivery and skills. Students can get the content online now anywhere. What they need help with is that learner support.

Written by Olsy Sorokina. Interview produced by Kent Hoffman. Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. To hear the full conversation with Tony Bates, click the 'listen' button at the top of the page.

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University of Massachusetts scaling up online learning, partners with Californias Brandman University on adu – MassLive.com

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The University of Massachusetts will partner with a California-based university system to scale up its online educational programs with the goal of serving more adult learners, the schools announced Tuesday.

The partnership between UMass Online and Brandman University is expected to be finalized later this year. UMass officials said they are still working through its details.

The move comes amid the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and UMass officials said millions of adults in Massachusetts and across the country will need flexible, high-quality and affordable online education alternatives as they seek to recover from economic dislocation.

The COVID crisis has actually put quite an emphasis on the need for this, UMass Online CEO Don Kilburn told the News Service. During the recession in 2008, 2009, programs for working adults fully online programs went up significantly, because people were trying to get those skills to get back in a competitive workforce. Now you have the double whammy of people not really wanting to get in their car and head to a campus necessarily.

Kilburn said the partnership will present adult learners both in Massachusetts and across the country with an ability "to actually get a degree in a program that was built for if you're a working adult," accommodating their needs and schedules.

Brandman is based in Irvine, California, and it was established by Chapman University in 1958 to educate active-service military personnel. Kilburn described it as one of the best, if not the best, colleges that is actually geared toward working adults.

Chapman University President Daniele Struppa described the partnership with UMass as "an ideal fit for Brandman's next step."

"Brandman is destined for national prominence as a leader in education for working adults, but it is increasingly clear that Chapman has taken it as far as we can," Struppa said in a statement. "The time has come for Brandman to expand its reach."

The arrangement will strengthen UMass Online's technology platform and support services, according to the university. Kilburn said the partnership does not carry a cost for UMass or the state.

Adults in underserved communities will be a key target group for the new partnership, according to a press release from UMass. The university cited a Strada Network survey that found most American adults 62% are concerned about unemployment, but that percentage is higher among African Americans (68%) and Latinos and Asian Americans (72%).

University of Massachusetts system president Marty Meehan used his 2019 state of the university address to announce plans to create a new online college focused on adult learners.

Quality, affordability and flexibility in higher education are needed more than ever to address the troubling lack of economic mobility, Meehan said in a statement Tuesday. Through this partnership, we will deliver for the citizens of the Commonwealth and for learners across the nation. Given the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vivid impact of racial inequality, a venture that previously seemed important to us is now nothing less than essential.

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated social distancing requirements forced colleges and universities to move their traditional, in-person classes online to finish the spring semester, and many schools are now looking ahead to incorporate more online and remote learning into their fall plans.

All of us in higher education discovered how important distance learning is when the pandemic made on-campus classes impossible, Katherine Newman, the UMass systems chancellor of academic programs, said in a statement. But to scale up online education, we are going to need to do much more than translate our current curriculum to Zoom. We need to grow an affordable, flexible form of online education.

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BOSTON The University of Massachusetts and Chapman University System announced their intent to form an exclusive strategic partnership between UMass Online and Brandman University to expand educational opportunities for adult learners in Massachusetts and across the nation.

This partnership, expected to be finalized later this year, will be launched as millions of adults in Massachusetts and across the U.S. need flexible, high-quality, and affordable online-education alternatives now and as they recover from the economic dislocation caused by COVID-19, which has disproportionately impacted communities of color.

Based in Irvine, Calif., Brandman was established in 1958 by Chapman University, a 159-year-old private institution in Orange, Calif. Originally founded to deliver high-quality education to active-service military, Brandman has evolved into a widely recognized leader in online education, with a strong record of serving veterans and a diverse range of adult learners.

The partnership will augment UMass Online, which now supports more than 25,000 students, strengthening its technology platform and student-support services tailored to adult learners.

As our state and national economies are rapidly shifting, we need to do more for adults who are already in the workplace and those who have been displaced to enhance their current skills and develop new ones, said UMass President Marty Meehan, who first announced plans to scale up online programs for adult learners last year. Quality, affordability, and flexibility in higher education are needed more than ever to address the troubling lack of economic mobility. Through this partnership, we will deliver for the citizens of the Commonwealth and for learners across the nation. Given the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vivid impact of racial inequality, a venture that previously seemed important to us is now nothing less than essential.

Meehan recently cited dramatic declines in the number of high-school graduates and employers need for a highly skilled workforce in announcing plans to scale up online programming at UMass. He also cited the troubling lack of economic mobility among African-Americans and Hispanics. The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 has accelerated these challenges, and the need for new online education programs that remove the obstacles adult learners often face is now even more urgent.

A key target group for the partnership will be adult learners in underserved communities. According to a Strada Network survey of 4,000 adults, most Americans (62%) are concerned about unemployment, but African-Americans are moreso (68%), and their Latinx and Asian counterparts are even more worried (72%). The same study indicated that 53% of adult learners prefer online education opportunities.

It is not a simple matter to accommodate adults who have to juggle children, jobs, elder care, and college attendance when the classes we offer are largely available during the work day, said Katherine Newman, chancellor of Academic Programs fior the UMass system. By far the best solution is to be found in rigorous, creative online education. All of us in higher education discovered how important distance learning is when the pandemic made on-campus classes impossible. But to scale up online education, we are going to need to do much more than translate our current curriculum to Zoom. We need to grow an affordable, flexible form of online education.

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HeyHi Selects Vonage to Power Global Online Education Platform – Business Wire

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SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Singapore-based HeyHi, an interactive online educational platform, has chosen Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, to power outstanding online classroom learning experiences to schools, learning centers, tuition centers and private tutors in Asia and North America.

HeyHis platform offers a fully interactive whiteboard with unlimited writing space and multiple screens, designed for interactive real-time, online learning. With an easy-to-use interface that simplifies the learning process using video, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is compatible with any device and suitable for students of all ages.

Vonages Video APIs are embedded within HeyHis web application to facilitate and support its one-to-one online math tutoring platform - iMath as well as other one-to-many online classroom sessions. HeyHi has 10,000 customers, with 100,000 engagements over the last three months.

For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, HeyHi is offering its online education solutions for free to support teachers, parents and students. With schools and educational institutions closed in most nations, teachers, tutors and students need a robust online educational platform to provide an effective learning environment.

Vonages Communications Services Platform allows developers to easily build innovative communication experiences - from SMS to voice to video and beyond - directly into their existing applications and devices. Embedding the Vonage Video APIs within HeyHis solutions enables enhanced communications between teachers and students.

In light of COVID-19, online educational platforms are more essential than ever. HeyHi provides flexible and uninterrupted educational services for continued learning; high-quality video and screen sharing services are critical to that. Vonages Video APIs can be easily integrated with our web application to deliver enhanced communications among our users, said Yueh Mei, Founder/CEO of HeyHi.

HeyHi is used by teachers in schools, learning centers, tuition centers and private tutors. This includes Singapore-based ProLearn Tuition Centers and KidsExcel, teachers from Ai Tong School and Paya Lebar Methodist Girls School, as well as tutors of Seriously Addictive Mathematics (S.A.M) in Thailand, New Zealand and Canada.

The World Economic Forum says over 1.2 billion children in 186 countries1 have been adversely impacted by school closures during COVID-19. At the same time there has been a significant rise in online learning tools and applications.

The EdTech industry is booming in Asia. Market Research reported that APAC will be the fastest growing region for the Learning Management System market with a CAGR of over 19.75% from 2019-2027.2

"Vonage has been a worldwide leader in webRTC video solutions since the webRTC standard was established in 2012 and Vonages Communications Services Platform is powering the solutions of many of the world's leading educational services, like HeyHi," said Sunny Rao, Vonage Vice President and General Manager for the Asia Pacific region. We are delighted to support HeyHis educational services across Singapore, United States, Canada, Vietnam and Thailand. We recognize the immediate need for agile online educational platforms such as HeyHi that support home-based learning, benefiting both students and teachers.

Vonages Communications Services Platform has more than one million registered developers and offers a full suite of programmable voice, video, messaging, and email services to forward-thinking businesses throughout the Asia-Pacific market and worldwide. Through its partners, Vonages platform is at the center of many notable transformational projects in the region, and a de facto for startups.

To find out more about Vonage, visit http://www.vonage.com.

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About Vonage

Vonage, (Nasdaq: VG) a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation. Vonage's Communications Services Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage's fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity.

Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, Australia and Asia. To follow Vonage on Twitter, please visit http://www.twitter.com/vonage. To become a fan on Facebook, go to facebook.com/vonage. To subscribe on YouTube, visit youtube.com/vonage.

About HeyHi

HeyHi empowers online teaching with video conferencing for live communications and a powerful interactive whiteboard for collaboration. Communication and collaboration bring about engaged and meaningful learning in a live online environment. It is designed with deep pedagogy in mind by a team who collectively has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, curriculum planning, assessment and educational policy, and supported by a highly-skilled and rigorous tech team. Together, their passion to bring affordable and accessible education through live-online teaching propels the team to continuously iterate and make HeyHi better each day.

Visit HeyHi at http://www.heyhi.sg or follow HeyHi Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/639168979993925/) for latest updates and features.

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Online learning is in and Coursera has been doing it for years with affordable college degrees – SILive.com

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During the coronavirus pandemic, online learning came to the forefront for students of all ages.

While grammar schools, intermediate schools and high schools wont move to the web platform, colleges across the country realize they have to offer remote classes to stay competitive.

One online learning school called Coursera.org has been specializing in online education for years.

Coursera is a world-wide online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations and degrees.

Its not just another of the worlds run-of-the-mill online colleges. You will specialize in a particular field of your choice and once you graduate you will be ready to take on the world.

Right now, you can sign up for free and see what Coursera has to offer.

Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, specializations, and degrees in a variety of subjects, such as engineering, data science, machine learning, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences and others.

And you can get a certified degree in a lot less time it takes at traditional colleges and universities.

According to Wikipedia, courses last approximately 4 to 10 weeks, with one to two hours of video lectures a week.

These courses provide quizzes, weekly exercises, peer-graded assignments, and sometimes a final project or exam. Courses are also provided on-demand, in which case users can take their time in completing the course with all of the material available at once. As of May 2015, Coursera offered 104 on-demand courses.

As of 2017, Coursera offered full masters degrees.

The cost you might ask? Well, you wont have to break the bank, compared to some traditional colleges and universities.

Coursera offers some free courses, but the cost of individual courses which last 4 to 6 weeks range in price from $29 to $99.

Specialized programs, which can last 4-6 months, are $39-$79 per month.

An online degree, which can take 1-3 years can range from $15,000 to $25,000, a steep discount from what private colleges and universities charge.

Click here to register now for free and explore all Coursera has to offer.

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This Online Education Stock Has Great Long-Term Potential, but Is It a Buy Right Now? – Motley Fool

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Few companies have performed as well as Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the potential for and necessity of online education became apparent. Its stock didn't fall very far at the outset and shares have more than doubled since, but investors should hold off on jumping into this hot stock.

The pandemic has likely been a transformational event for digital education, but there are variables that still need to be sorted out. Chegg has come very far, very fast and the near term carries downside risk, even if the long-term looks bright.

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Higher education is in need of an overhaul, not least because of the cost involved in getting a college degree. Student loan debt stands at $1.6 trillion and is second to only mortgage debt in weighing down American consumers, but the sheepskin that graduates receive isn't nearly as valuable as it once was and will take a lifetime for many students to pay off.

The shutting down of educational institutions during the crisis showed how distance learning can change the system, and this might be the first stages of what becomes a structural shift that benefits Chegg, which provides tutoring, work skills, and more.

Many people first learned of Chegg when they rented textbooks to do an end run around another exorbitantly overpriced portion of higher education, but the company is now making its mark with direct-to-student learning.

Chegg's textbook rentals began in 2007, but it has since transitioned to offering a full suite of services mostly for college students, but also high school students, and even a few middle school offerings, too.

Among the services available are online classes, tutoring, video problem-solving, error and and plagiarism check software, as well as study materials on virtually any subject. It also offers career information and job placement assistance for entry-level positions. The online, always available tools provide the one-on-one assistance students need to master writing, math, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of students at all levels to adapt to a new, alternative way of receiving an education. With in-person, one-on-one assistance shuttered along with school, Chegg was one of those services that enabled students to adapt to this new reality, one that could continue long after this crisis passes.

Chegg reported last month that first-quarter subscriptions to services such as Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, Math Solver, and Tutors surged 35% to 2.9 million students, generating 235 million total views of coursework and boosting revenue by 35% to $131.6 million.

While that's a remarkable increase on its own, the fact is that students were already moving toward virtual learning through Chegg in greater numbers before schools were required to change over to online education.

Chegg said subscriber growth was up 33% for the first two months of the quarter and accelerated from those levels in the middle of March, coinciding with COVID-19 being declared a pandemic and businesses and institutions being forced to shut down. It now expects second-quarter subscriber growth to exceed 45%, with a similar percentage increase in revenue to as much as $137 million.

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) is also forecast to leap forward, coming in between $40 million and $48 million, a 50% to 57% increase over the year-ago period.

Like many businesses, it is not comfortable looking too far out into the future because of the pandemic, so it has not provided full-year guidance.

Chegg's stock hit a 52-week low of just under $26 a share in March and has soared 126% since then as investors caught on to the potential for this virtual teaching assistant. While shares have eased back from the highs they hit following its earnings report, they remain elevated. That's why, although Chegg looks like a great long-term pick, it might not be the best investment now.

There remains a lot of uncertainty about how fall semester classes will be held, whether students will be allowed to enroll and return to class in person beginning in September. As much as a transformation is necessary for higher education, it won't happen overnight. The economy's return to normalcy could be signal of a resumption of the established ways for schooling, too.

That doesn't mean Chegg won't still grow. The company continues to expand its offerings to new students at earlier stages of education, such as middle school and even elementary school, while expanding internationally.

Analysts forecast Chegg will grow earnings 25% annually, but the stock trades at over 40 times estimated profits for the coming year. And though free cash flow jumped to $8 million in the first quarter from $3.9 million last year, the stock goes for over 65 times FCF, an exceptionally high valuation.

Chegg remains a good, long-term stock pick that will benefit from changes that are desperately needed to break the cycle of high-cost education, but not at just any price. Chegg doesn't deserve to go to the head of the class just yet.

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Gregg Coccari feels torn. Its early June, and the coronavirus pandemic has thrown tens of millions of people out of work. But the company he runs, online learning platform Udemy, is thriving. Of course were very excited about that, he says. But were also watching people get laid off, and we see them struggling.

A lot of those people are flocking to Udemys selection of 150,000 online classes, most of which sell for from $10 to $20. In May alone, the company logged 25 million new enrollments, compared to 9 million the previous May. Its Udemy for Business division, which sells annual subscriptions for $360 per user to companies including Adidas and Toyota, is booming, too. Among the most popular classes: best practices for Zoom videoconferencing and how to manage a virtual team.

Udemy CEO Gregg Coccari

From March through May, Udemys sales were double the total for the same period in 2019, says Coccari. Surging demand will likely drive revenue above $400 million this year, according to two sources with knowledge of Udemys finances. (Coccari says that number is in the ballpark.) He says Udemy would be profitable if it werent planning to hire 200 people this year and investing in overseas expansion. It already has courses in 65 languages and customers in 190 countries.

Clad in a roomy grey T-shirt, Coccari, 67, is running things from a bedroom in his 1920s Spanish colonial home in Santa Monica, California. Starting in early 2019, when he became CEO, most Mondays he caught a 6:30 am flight to San Francisco, where the ten-year-old company is based, or he headed to one of its branch offices in Denver, Dublin, Ankara, So Paulo or Gurgaon, India. Now his life imitates a Udemy course, and hes not thrilled about it. Yesterday I had ten hours of Zoom meetings, he says. Id like to break my laptop. I prefer human interaction.

But Udemy is benefiting from worldwide social isolation. While K-12 schools and colleges struggle to teach online, Udemy is simply opening the spigot on a business model it pioneered. Its platform hosts unaccredited courses taught by instructors who independently create videotaped lessons and answer email questions from students on a Udemy message board. The company collects a share, usually 50%, of the course fees. Users determine which courses get the most traffic by posting star ratings and reviews.

LEFT Udemy Founder Eren Bali. RIGHT Bali in Udemy's first office in 2013.

Founder Eren Bali, 35, who chairs Udemys board, got the idea for the company after growing up in an impoverished village in southeastern Turkey where he pursued his math obsession by researching problems on the Web. He believed that great online instructors didnt need fancy degrees. We wanted to create a marketplace-based education company where any expert in the world could teach their own course, he says. He tried launching a livestreamed version of the site in Turkey in 2007. It flopped but SpeedDate, a live online dating site based in Silicon Valley, recruited him as an engineer.

He and two cofounders bootstrapped Udemys U.S. launch (the name is a portmanteau of you and academy) in 2010 after more than 200 funders turned them down. Edtech investor Daniel Pianko of New York-based University Ventures regrets passing on the opportunity. I thought the idea was too crazy, he says. Online education at the time was dominated by accredited for-profit giants like University of Phoenix. It was a totally revolutionary concept, that someone unaffiliated with a university could teach a course, he says.

While K-12 schools and colleges struggle to teach online, Udemy is simply opening the spigot on a business model it pioneered.

The first Udemy courses included how to make money playing poker online and how to pick up women. But the founders soon realized that coding and business skills like data science and team-building were more in demand. Those courses make up two thirds of Udemys selection. But the platform is still open to anyone who wants to teach. Portrait drawing and Reiki massage courses have been popular during the pandemic.

Competing online education sites including LinkedIn Learning and Coursera work with university professors (Coursera) or they heavily screen would-be instructors (LinkedIn Learning) and reject most applicants. By contrast, Udemy instructors just have to satisfy six items on a checklist of minimum requirements like posting at least 30 minutes of video content per course. All subject matter is welcome aside from a shortlist of no-nos like porn, firearms and hate speech. A handful of top Udemy instructors earn as much as $1 million a year. Read about one here.

Coccari says several hundred instructors make at least six figures annually, and that number will likely double this year. They include Teresa Greenway, 61, who earned $12,400 this May from her bread-baking courses. A high school dropout who married at 21, she had 10 children including a son with autism before she escaped her abusive marriage a decade ago. I had no degree, no work history and I was pretty battered emotionally, she says. In 2015, she stumbled on Udemy and put together a three-hour sourdough course.

After escaping an abusive marriage, Teresa Greenway discovered Udemy, where demand for her sourdough bread baking courses is spiking.

She now has 13 courses, which feed several other income streams, including eight self-published books, which she sells on Amazon. She records all her Udemy videos in advance. Once posted, they run on autopilot. Her only interaction with students is through a Udemy message board where students post questions. She spends 20 minutes a day writing answers. Last year Udemy accounted for the biggest chunk of the $78,000 she earned. This year she expects her income to double.

Bali left as CEO in 2014 and the company churned through two more bosses before Coccari took over last year. (In 2014 Bali cofounded a San Francisco startup, Carbon Health, where he is CEO.) A Wharton grad and serial startup CEO, Coccaris last job was heading Milwaukee-based premium pet food purveyor Stella & Chewys. One of that companys backers, Ken Fox of New York-based venture firm Stripes, is a Udemy investor and board member. He asked Coccari to take the CEO job and manage Udemys expansion.

In February Coccari closed a $50 million investment from Benesse Holdings, the publicly traded Tokyo-based education and senior care conglomerate that owns the Berlitz language schools. The deal brought Udemys total capital invested to more than $200 million and vaulted its valuation from a reported $710 million to $2 billion. Though Japans pandemic lockdowns were less restrictive than other countries, Udemys Japanese revenue in the first five months of 2020 tripled sales for the same period in 2019, according to Benesse CEO Tamotsu Adachi.

Udemy welcomes all subject matter aside from a shortlist of no-nos like porn, firearms and hate speech.

Coccari is cautious about predicting how the pandemic will shape the future of education. But online learning cheerleaders like Chicago edtech investor Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures believes the virtual education market will hit $1 trillion in 2026, more than double what she expected before the pandemic. She says Udemy is poised to balloon in size and regrets that she didnt fund the company. I was stupid, she says.

Coccari says hes concentrating on the present. Were just really focused on making sure we can handle these massive spikes in traffic, he says. We dont know what the world is going to look like at the end of all this.

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Hughes Joins with 4-H to Champion Online STEM Education amid Increased Demand for Virtual Learning – Herald-Mail Media

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GERMANTOWN, Md., June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- With the increase in remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for online education resources has skyrocketed. In response, Hughes Network Systems, LLC(HUGHES), the company behind America's No. 1 satellite Internet serviceHughesNet,joins with National 4-H Council to empower kids through online access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.

The new 4-H at Home platform, developed with the support of HughesNet,combines innovative resources like the 4-H STEM Lab with curriculum and activities from America's Cooperative Extension System. From February to March, the 4-H STEM Lab saw a 419 percent increase in traffica reflection of the increased need for online educational content. Building on the momentum of the HughesNet-sponsored STEM Lab, this new 4-H at Home online destination helps families discover even more activities in areas such as STEM and healthy living, enhancing their at-home learning experience.

"With so many students learning at home due to COVID-19, there is an urgent need for online access to educational resources," said Peter Gulla, senior vice president of marketing at Hughes. "We are pleased that through our support of 4-H STEM content we are able to help bring quality educational materials to more children and their families during this unprecedented time."

"Across the country, communities are facing unforeseen challenges due to the impact of the coronavirus," said Jennifer Sirangelo, president and CEO, National 4-H Council. "We recognize it can be stressful for parents and families to maintain a sense of normalcy and make sure kids stay on track in their daily development. We are excited to launch the 4-H at Home resource with the support of important partners like HughesNet and the innovation of America's Cooperative Extension System to help ensure young people have the resources to stay connected and engaged during this uncertain time."

Recently, the Peer Awards for Excellencerecognized Hughes for its work with 4-H promoting STEM education. The company was shortlisted for a Peer Award in Corporate Responsibility in Educating Young People and honored with an Award for Innovation in the category. In 2018, Hughes earned a Peer Award in Corporate Responsibilityfor innovative hands-on learning resources developed with 4-H, including STEM Lab. Peer Award recipients undergo a meticulous evaluation process by fellow professionals across criteria such as impact and innovation.

Since 2014, HughesNet has supported 4-H's efforts to bring STEM learning opportunities to young people across the country. For more information, visithttps://www.hughesnet.com/about/4-h-sponsorship

About Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in broadband satellite technology and services for home and office. Its flagship high-speed satellite Internet service is HughesNet, the world's largest satellite network with over 1.5 million residential and business customers across the Americas. For large enterprises and governments, the company's HughesON managed network services provide complete connectivity solutions employing an optimized mix of satellite and terrestrial technologies. The JUPITER System is the world's most widely deployed High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) platform, operating on more than 40 satellites by leading service providers, delivering a wide range of broadband enterprise, mobility and cellular backhaul applications. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 7 million terminals of all types to customers in over 100 countries, representing approximately 50 percent market share, and its technology is powering broadband services to aircraft around the world.

Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations. For additional information about Hughes, please visitwww.hughes.comand follow@HughesConnectson Twitter.

About EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of satellite communication solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in secure communications technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments. For more information, visit echostar.com. Follow @EchoStaron Twitter.

About 4H

4H, the nation's largest youth development organization, grows confident young people who are empowered for life today and prepared for career tomorrow. 4H programs empower nearly 6 million young people across the U.S. through experiences that develop critical life skills. 4H is the youth development program of our nation's Cooperative Extension System and USDA, and serves every county and parish in the U.S. through a network of 110 public universities and more than 3000 local Extension offices. The research-backed 4H experience grows young people who are four times more likely to contribute to their communities; two times more likely to make healthier choices; two times more likely to be civically active; and two times more likely to participate in STEM programs.

2020 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes and HughesNet are registered trademarks and JUPITER is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.

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Campus leaders need a willingness to make a substantial in the online program and give its directors autonomy

Richard Price, Clayton Christensen Institute

The coronavirus campus closures and the wholesale shift to online learning have taken higher education to a turning point that could result in greater access and lower tuition.

Online learning will be transformative when college and universitiesif they havent alreadymake substantial investments in creating a robust online education program, saysRichard Price,a higher education research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, which studies disruptive innovations.

And that investment will be essential as more students, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, demand alternatives to the high fixed cost, high-tuition model of higher education, Price says.

Even though well eventually see a full-scale return to the on-campus experience, colleges and universities no longer have the option to dabble in online, Price says. Colleges and universities will start to notice the investment is pretty worthwhile in expanding revenue and lowering costs.

More from UB: How the line between online and face-to-face instruction is blurring

Well-developed online education programs can now offer instruction that is equal toor in some cases better thanface-to-face courses. To start, campus administrators hoping to create a robust online initiative should be prepared for substantial up-front costs.

Leaders also should give the programs directors a high level of autonomy in designing the initiative, which should prevent the online model from simply becoming a virtual duplicate of the in-person program, Price says.

Disruption theory suggests creating a buffer from the main institutional model, Price says. This gives innovative models space to breathe and keeps the main model from suffocating or smothering it.

The traditional campus model continues to inhibit access because its too costly for some and, for otherssuch as working parentsit doesnt offer enough flexibility of schedule, Price says.

The model has also been unable to achieve equity, Price adds.

If I were a hiring manager filtering out anyone who didnt have a bachelors degree, Id be filtering out 68% of the black community and 79% of the Latinx community, Price says. Clearly, were not seeing proportionate outcomes at the university level.

More from UB: Is this competency-based learnings big moment?

Despite the cost to produce, Price encourages administrators to resist the temptation to charge the same tuition for online courses as they do for in-person instruction.

For example, the University of Flordias tuition for online is about 60% of the in-person cost while tuition at the fully-online Western Governors University remains around $7,000 a year, Price says.

Online learning must also offer students more than streaming or recorded video of a lecture. More mature programs employ instructional designers that can give an online course a film studio effect, Price says.

Administrators and faculty must leverage online learnings advantages over in-person instruction. Usage data, for instance, can show an instructoreven in a large lecture course of several hundredwhich students are actively participating.

However, designers of online learning should also figure out how to incorporate the best components of face-to-face learning, such as student study groups and one-on-one tutoring sessions.

Its a matter of optimizing for online strengths instead of replicating, point by point, what instructors are doing in person, Price says.

UBs coronavirus page offers complete coverage of the impacts on higher ed.

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Wednesday, June 17, announced plans to open this fall with both in-person and online classes.

According to a news release, face masks will be required, and university buildings are being modified to encourage social distancing and install plexiglass barriers in high-traffic areas.

University residence halls will be open, and student services and activities will be provided online and in person.

We have given very careful consideration to what is best for our students educationally and to address the health needs of our students, faculty and staff, and our community, Chancellor Mark Mone said. We know students and families have been waiting for this announcement, but it was important for us to take the time to get it right. We knew from surveys that our students wanted to be back on campus, but we needed to make sure that we could bring them back in as safe a manner as possible.

UWM will follow itsoriginal academic calendar, with classes beginning Sept. 2.

Many classes this fall will be offered with a hybrid approach that involves a mix of face-to-face and online instruction. For example, in a Tuesday/Thursday class, half of the students would attend in person on Tuesday and have online instruction on Thursday, while the other half would have the opposite schedule. This approach reduces the number of students present at one time to 50 or fewer and allows for more efficient implementation of social distancing in classrooms. Students with health concerns may request accommodations to complete their coursework online.

Some classes, such as labs and studios, are being structured to meet entirely or almost entirely in person while maintaining social distancing standards. Instructors will be prepared to move the classes online should public health conditions require it.

And, as usual, UWM will offer hundreds of courses entirely online, including all classes with more than 100 students.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, UWM was already home to Wisconsins largest online education program with over 850 online classes and more than 40 fully online degrees and certificates. It has beenrated Wisconsins best online college by TheBestSchools.organdranked among the nations50 best online bachelors programs by U.S. News & World Report.

Preparations for the fall semester have already begun with modifications to university buildings that include the installation of signage and floor markings that indicate where to line up and enter and exit in order to maintain social distance. High-traffic areas, such as the Bursars and Registrars Offices, will have plexiglass installed at their service counters.

Classrooms will be professionally cleaned at least once per day and stocked with hand sanitizer and disinfectants that students and instructors can use.

Single and double rooms will be available in UWM residence halls, which are suite-style, with two or three bedrooms connected to a bathroom. UWM does not have group showers or large communal restrooms like some other universities.

Dining services in the residence halls and the UWM Student Union are being adapted so meals can be ordered and paid for using a cellphone or other mobile device. Service will be contactless.

Employees and students will be required to wear masks unless they are in a private office or their own residence hall room. Masks also must be worn outside when six feet of distance cant be maintained.

COVID-19 testing will be available for students with COVID-19 symptoms at UWMs Norris Health Center, but widespread on-campus testing of people without symptoms is not planned at this time. Students and employees are expected to monitor their health, watch for possible symptoms and stay home if they are sick.

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